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Sri Lanka was affectionately known as Ratna-Dweepa which means Gem Island. The name is a reflection of its natural wealth. Marco Polo wrote that the island had the best sapphires, topazes, amethysts, and other gems in the world. [1] Ptolemy, the 2nd century astronomer recorded that beryl and sapphire were
Arjun was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Brit Asia Music Awards in 2011. [7] In December 2011, his song "Stargazer" was voted the number 2 song on the first ever Asian Video Chart on Kiss TV (No.1 was A.R Rahman's group Super Heavy, which included Mick Jagger & Joss Stone.) [8]
He collaborated with him for the song "Aathichudi" [2] for the soundtrack of the film TN 07 AL 4777 (2008) [3] in 2009 which is a remake of Surangani, a song from his first independent album, Tamizha [4] Back in Sri Lanka, he did a cross-culture album [5] in 2005 which includes songs in Tamil, Sinhala and English. [citation needed]
Geuda (ගෙවුඩ, pronounced gay-yoo-dah [needs IPA]) is a form of the mineral corundum, or sapphire, found primarily in Sri Lanka. Around 70%-80% of gems mined in Sri Lanka belong to geuda varieties. Because of its semitransparent and milky appearance due to rutile inclusions, these stones have little value as gemstones in their natural ...
Maheson later released his solo album and Sri Lanka's first ever Tamil hip-hop album "Asian Avenue" in 2005, under M Entertainments and Universal Music India. This was the first ever Sri Lankan Tamil album to be released in South India. The album helped Maheson spread his influence to young Tamil diaspora markets in Europe and Canada in the mid ...
The national anthem of Sri Lanka "Sri Lanka Matha" is believed to have been written by Rabindranath Tagore [5] and later composed by Ananda Samarakoon in 1940 before the island nation's independence from the British. In 1951, it became the national anthem of Sri Lanka. [6] [7] Firstly, it was written in Sinhalese and translated to Tamil. The ...
Other deposits are located in India (Andhra Pradesh), Madagascar, Tanzania and Sri Lanka. Alexandrite in sizes over three carats are very rare. Today, several labs can produce synthetic lab-grown stones with the same chemical and physical properties as natural alexandrite. Several methods can produce flux-grown alexandrite, Czochralski (or ...
For the film Nedeyo in 1976, he made vocals with Latha Walpola for the song "A Rankanda Pemkanda", composed by George Leslie. [10] The Sinhala Baila song Pissu Vikare (Dagena Polkatu Male) by H. R. Jothipala, Milton Perera, M. S. Fernando is a cover version of the Tamil song Dingiri Dingale (Meenachi) from the 1958 Tamil film Anbu Engey.